Exchequer and Audit Departments Act, 1866

Duties of Comptroller General of the Exchequer and Commissioners of Audit.

5. . . . the person appointed to be Comptroller and Auditor General shall have and perform all the powers and duties conferred or imposed on the Comptroller General of the Exchequer and the Commissioners for auditing the Public Accounts respectively by any enactments relative to those authorities respectively, as far as the same are not repealed or altered by this Act or any other Act of the present session of Parliament . . .